F3 - Participants involvement




The outstanding purpose of the project is to enable young participants to be involved in the project from the beginning. We hope that using this way we contribute to develop their prospect to take responsibilities, to take serious decisions and develop steps forward on the project.
Student voice will be an integral part in all aspects of the project, with lead learners being involved at the planning stage in May and October each year. Their ideas and views will help shape the activities that will take place throughout the year and they will help plan and support on May student conferences. The October meetings will be a collaborative process where responsibilities will be shared between staff and students. This will be a valuable learning process for students.

Students of the schools involved will keep in touch by e-mail, Skype or messenger.

Students will be fully involved in the curriculum activities and the enrichment projects that will result from this planning. The students will be asked to take on the roles of young 'teachers' in the project. They will present the ideas they have learned to others in their peer group. The staff in the project will guide these 'teachers' in creative and innovative approaches to the learning process using ICT and other methods. They will also have a significant role as local guides for visitors.
In this sense, during the events it is planned for families and staff to act as hosts for visiting students and staff, which will further their cultural awareness and promote ideas about cultural differentses at home and wider community.

Evaluation of the activities will be ongoing throughout the two years, each school taking an equal share of these responsibilities. On a national level the teachers will organize and supervise their pupil's work and give them guidance and advice. Each partner school will organize a meeting session during which all partners will be able to meet. Each school will regularly organise project meetings in their schools during which they will asses the amount of work thy did or plan next activities. Thanks to the meetings, held regularly, they will have the opportunity to discuss and evaluate how the project activities are going on. In this way they will be given feedback to each other. These actions will be included in the daily agenda of each school in order to achieve a high performance of outputs.
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Having visited to partner countries and exchanged information about cultures, staff will have the chance to get to know the others’ styles of lives and traditions and to extend point of view.